Disabled Public Safety Officers Fairness Act of 2008

Disabled Public Safety Officers Fairness Act of 2008 - Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to provide for payment of disability benefits to public safety officers who became permanently and totally disabled prior to the enactment of such Act.

[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Printing Office]
[H.R. 6360 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6360

   To provide public safety officer disability benefits to officers 
  disabled before the enactment of the Federal public safety officer 
                        disability benefits law.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 24, 2008

Mr. Kuhl of New York introduced the following bill; which was referred 
                   to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
   To provide public safety officer disability benefits to officers 
  disabled before the enactment of the Federal public safety officer 
                        disability benefits law.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Disabled Public Safety Officers 
Fairness Act of 2008''.

SEC. 2. DISABILITY BENEFITS FOR PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICERS DISABLED BEFORE 
              ENACTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICER DISABILITY LAW.

    (a) In General.--Section 1201(b) of the Omnibus Crime Control and 
Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3796(b)) is amended by inserting 
after ``determines that a public safety officer has'' the following: 
``, whether before, on, or after the date of the enactment of this 
Act,''.
    (b) Applicability.--The amendment made by subsection (a) applies to 
any public safety officer alive on or after the date of the enactment 
of this Act.
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